George Healey papers, 1941-1972.
Collection Number: 13-6-1969
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
George Healey papers, 1941-1972.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
13-6-1969
Abstract:
Cornell Library Journal records include orders/paid subscriptions, 1967-1968 and correspondence,
1966-1972. Also, George James Hucker correspondence regarding the ordering and making
of the Cornell University mace, 1961-1963; Rare Books Department correspondence, 1968-1970;
sheet catalogs; author's manuscripts, 1966-1972; and a photocopied typescript of a
poem written by George H. Healey for the Cornell Class of 1909 Reunion Social, 1963.
Includes historical newspapers and magazines regarding World War II and other great
moments in twentieth century American history.
Creator:
Healey, George Harris.
Quanitities:
9.3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
George H. Healey attended West Virginia University, where he received a bachelor's
degree in philosophy in 1932 and a master's degree in 1935. In 1940 he became an instructor
at Cornell University, and received his Ph.D. from that institution in 1947. He became
curator of the Department of Rare Books at its inception in 1957, and continued to
teach English at Cornell. Healey published books on William Wordsworth, James Joyce,
and Daniel Defoe while developing collections of their works and papers for the Rare
Books Department at Cornell.
Cornell Library Journal records include orders/paid subscriptions, 1967-1968 and correspondence,
1966-1972. Also, George James Hucker correspondence regarding the ordering and making
of the Cornell University mace, 1961-1963; Rare Books Department correspondence, 1968-1970;
sheet catalogs; author's manuscripts, 1966-1972; and a photocopied typescript of a
poem written by George H. Healey for the Cornell Class of 1909 Reunion Social, 1963.
Includes historical newspapers and magazines regarding World War II and other great
moments in twentieth century American history.
Includes correspondence, lectures, speeches, notes, subject files, and University
memorabilia.
Box 3 "Library Associates material (including C.U. Mace correspondence), 1961-1963"
was transferred to Cornell University Library Associates records, #13-6-2599 in 1991.
Literary property rights to the letters, lectures, and speeches of Healey retained
by the family of George Healey.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
George Healey papers, #13-6-1969. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Hucker, George James.
Cornell University. Libraries. Department of Rare Books
Subjects:
Cornell University mace.
College teachers -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
Form and Genre Terms:
Poems.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
Box 1 |
Rare Books, Department of. Correspondence (G.H. Healey and D. Eddy),
|
1968-1971 | |
Box 2 |
Cornell Library Journal (includes author's manuscripts)
|
1966-1975 | |
Box 2 |
Phi Beta Kappa folder
|
||
Box 4 |
Rare Books, Department of. Sheet catalogues, A-K
|
||
Box 5 |
Rare Books, Department of. Sheet catalogues, K-Z
|
||
Box 5 |
G.H.H.'s poem for Class of '09's 1963 Reunion
|
1963 | |
Box 5 |
Letters from John Robert Moore, 1942-1960 re: Defoe studies
|
1942-1960 | |
Box 6 |
Additions (Aug. 1995)
|
||
Box 7 |
Additions (Aug. 1995)
|
||
Box 8 |
Additions (Aug. 1995)
|
||
Box 9 |
Additions (Aug. 1995)
|
||
Box 10 |
Additions (Aug. 1995)
|
||
Box 11 |
Additions (Aug. 1995)
|